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Public enemies: Azure, Amazon, Google, Oracle, OpenStack, SoftLayer will murder private IT

smartypants

Cherry-picking season

"Not secure!"

"Wait till that big cloud datacentre meltdown!"

"Can we really trust them...?"

etc...

All problems with on-premise IT, but funnily enough only cloud gets this sort of criticism. In my last job, the on-premise IT was so bad that a £3 million project was lost. Only you never heard about it, or the thousands of other daily disasters because they don't make the news, and why would they? They're like car crashes... too numerous to be newsworthy.

IT means a lot more than just buying or selling boxes and wires and plugging them together. Cloud takes away much of the need to bother with the physical boxes and wires but really doesn't change IT where it matters - the design, engineering and maintenance of systems.... And it doesn't remove the business need to manage cost of provisioning - just changes the rules you play by.

If you're a box-seller, yes you're probably going to wave goodbye to much of your business today. If you're a box-plugger, look out for the latest mega-datacentre opening up round the corner from you next year!

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